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An LED probe lights up a mouse brain. Image: John Rogers, University of Illinois/Beckman Institute
Tiny injectable LEDs are the new tools in the field of optogenetics, which involves genetically modifying neurons to make them fire in response to light. John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and colleagues describe the probes in Science, along with several demonstrations of their potential.
Keyboard
Russian artist Anatoly Vyatkin installed a giant replica of a Cyrillic QWERTY keyboard made of 86 stone blocks, each weighing up to 1,000 pounds. The Keyboard monument (which in some circles also goes by the name “Claudia”) is a permanent outdoor sculpture located in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where it remains a prominent tourist attraction.
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